Databases

Databases are searchable, up-to-date indexes of journal articles and other types of information. You can use a database to find articles on a topic. Most databases are available to Curtin staff and students only.

Provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion. It covers all regions of the world, with in-depth content from pre-history to the present day contributed by internationally-renowned scholars. Includes a colour image bank with 1,600 images from the V&A Museum's fashion collection and 2,000 from the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library.

The Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN Database (BERITA), produced by the staff of the Southeast Asia Collection/Malaysian Resource Center, Ohio University, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published and unpublished material that concern Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, or South-East Asia as a whole (when the foci countries are included). Also included are materials regarding the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Source documents are monographs, journal articles, articles in books and conference papers.

Provides bibliographic coverage of research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

Provides bibliographic coverage of research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering, including medical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental and marine biology.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students and alumni. Available to walk-in users within the Library.

The Bibliography of Indonesian Politics and the Economy (BIPE), produced by the School of Asian Studies, University of Sydney, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts items on Indonesian politics, government, economy, political culture and demography.

The Book Citation Index is designed to enhance the powerful discovery and analysis capabilities of Web of Knowledge by incorporating comprehensive book citation data. Researchers can search for and identify the most relevant and esteemed literature along with the 12,000 peer-reviewed journals and 150,000 conference proceedings already indexed in Web of Knowledge, enabling users to navigate the links in citations across books, journals and proceedings. Books are indexed at the chapter level, resulting in improved searches and deeper insights into the citing behaviour between books and the wider world of scholarly research.

Brill Online Books and Journals is an online search service which searches across all Brill’s collections of e-books and journals simultaneously. It searches more than 2400 e-books and 175 journals covering the Humanities, International Law and Biology, and is updated daily. Full text can be found for over 90 journal titles and for the e-book collections: Brill Asian Studies ebook Collection and Brill Martinus Nijhoff Human rights and Humanitarian Law.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library.

The British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the leading collection of standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances. The BP makes an important contribution to public health by setting publicly available standards for the quality of medicines. The BP is an essential reference for all individuals and organisations working within pharmaceutical research and development, manufacture and testing across the globe.

Australian Building Construction & Engineering Database (BUILD), produced by the Building Information Resource Centre of CSIRO Building, Construction and Engineering, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts published and unpublished material on worldwide information in the building, construction and engineering field including fire technology. Formerly part of Engineering and Applied Science. Available via Informit.

Contains technical provisions for the design and construction of buildings and other structures, covering such matters as structure, fire resistance, access and egress, services and equipment, and energy efficiency as well as certain aspects of health and amenity.

Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

Access Policy: Available to Curtin staff and students. Available to walk-in users and alumni within the Library.

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Database use

The library's online resources such as databases, e-books and e-journals are covered by licences which specify the
conditions under which the licensed material can be used.
Library resources are provided to support academic research and study. They may not be used for commercial purposes, or for paid or unpaid
work on behalf of an organisation other than Curtin University. Bulk, excessive or automated downloading of material, supplying licensed
material to non-authorised users (including posting to websites) and actions in breach of the Copyright Act 1968 are not permitted. To
access Library online resources, you must agree to these conditions.

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